Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him. As an engineer, Archimedes of Syracuse almost single-handedly held off the world’s most powerful army. In an era of abacuses and sundials, he designed geared calculating devices that accurately modeled the solar system. As a mathematician, he knew more in 212 B.C.E. than all of Europe would know for the next 17 centuries.
Novelist and science writer Nicholas Nicastro shines a new light on Archimedes’ life and work to reveal an ambitious, combative, and fiercely competitive man who is far from the aloof, physically inept figure of historical myth. A genius who challenged an empire, Archimedes emerges in Nicastro’s portrait as the world’s first fully modern scientist—millennia before his intellectual descendants transformed our world.
Nicastro’s book Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science (Reaktion Books) is available for purchase.
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